• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.49-56
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• 2011

This study investigates how American English high back vowels are identified. American English and Korean speakers participated in a phonetic experiment for this study. This study shows their response times of the vowels and discusses how the speakers identified them. For the experiment I used a synthesized vowel continuum between American English /u/ and /$\mho$/based on American English male speakers' voice obtained by Peterson and Barney (1952). I manipulated spectral steps and vowel duration of the stimuli. The statistical results showed that American English speakers were not able to distinguish the stimuli based on spectral quality. Instead they relied on vowel duration. This suggests that the American English high back vowels have changed since Peterson and Barney recorded them in 1952. The Korean speakers also relied on vowel duration, not spectral quality since they could not distinguish them. American speakers' response times of these vowels were not affected by both spectral quality and vowel duration. Koreans' response times were affected by vowel durations only.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.571-582
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• 2015

This paper proposes a scheme to reduce spectral distortion in PAN-sharpening which produces a MultiSpectral image (MS) with the higher resolution of PANchromatic image (PAN). The spectral distortion results from reconstructing spatial details of PAN image in the MS image. The proposed method employs Spectral Adjustment and Anisotropic Diffusion to make a reduction of the distortion. The spectral adjustment makes the PAN-sharpened image agree with the original MS image, but causes block distortion because the spectral response of a pixel in the lower resolution is assumed to be equal to the average response of the pixels belonging to the corresponding area in the higher resolution at a same wavelength. The block distortion is corrected by the anisotropic diffusion which uses a conduct coefficient estimating from a local computation of PAN image. It results in yielding a PAN-sharpened image with the spatial structure of PAN image. GSA is one of PAN-sharpening techniques which are efficient in computation as well as good in quantitative quality evaluation. This study suggests the GSA as a preliminary PAN-sharpening method. Two data sets were used in the experiment to evaluate the proposed scheme. One is a Dubaisat-2 image of $1024{\times}1024$ observed at Los Angeles area, USA on February, 2014, the other is an IKONOS of $2048{\times}2048$ observed at Anyang, Korea on March, 2002. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme yields the PAN-sharpened images which have much less spectral distortion and better quantitative quality evaluation.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.483-500
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• 1997

We investigate the geometric properties reflected by the spectra of the Jacobi operator of a harmonic map when the target manifold is a Riemannian product manifold or a Kaehlerian product manifold. And also we study the spectral characterization of Riemannian sumersions when the target manifold is $S^n \times S^n$ or $CP^n \times CP^n$.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.297-303
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• 1998

The uniform hazard spectrum of Wolsong Nuclear Power plant Site is computed in order to estimate probabilistically the characteristics of spectral ground response. The spectral hazard values calculated from the seismic zoning maps proposed by eight seismologist are combined with equal weight to produce a uniform hazard spectrum. The uniform hazardd spectra corresponding to reference probabilities of 1.0 $\times$10-4/year and 1.0$\times$10-5/year are presented, which largely depend on the spectral attenuation relation. The computational results of this study contribute to verify the conservatism of the design ground spectrum of Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.1415-1420
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• 2005

The spectral interferences of OH from aqueous solvents in ICP-AES have been studied and eliminated using a cryogenic argon trap. The prominent lines of Bi I 306.772 nm, Al I 309.271 nm, and V II 310.230 nm, which are very seriously overlapped with the OH band, were examined. With an extended torch and high tangential flow of 20 L/min, water vapor from air entrainment was prevented. The combination of a condenser and argon cryogenic trap was able to eliminated most of water vapor carried by the argon sample gas. Removal of OH spectral interference could extend the linearity of the calibration curve 5-10 times on the lower concentration for ICP-AES. Interference Equivalent Concentration (IEC) has been reduced to 5.6, 5.9, and 12.4 times for Bi, Al and V, respectively.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.28-32
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• 2010

We demonstrate binary spectral phase coded waveform discrimination at 10 GHz for narrow band optical code-division multiple-access (NB-OCDMA) via direct electrical detection without using any optical hard-limiter. Only 9 phase-locked, 10 GHz spaced, spectral lines within a 100 GHz spectral window are used for the phase coding. Considerably high contrast ratio of 5 between signal and multiuser access interference noise can be achieved for $4{\times}10\;G\;pulse/sec$ timing coordinated OCDMA at a simple electrical receiver with 50 GHz bandwidth.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.28 no.1_2
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• pp.515-521
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• 2010

In multivariate analysis, the inversion formula of the Stieltjes transform is used to find the density of a spectral distribution of random matrices of sample covariance type. Let $B_n\;=\;\frac{1}{N}Y_nY_n^TT_n$ where $Y_n\;=\;[Y_{ij}]_{n\;{\times}\;N}$ is with independent, identically distributed entries and $T_n$ is an $n\;{\times}\;n$ symmetric non-negative definite random matrix independent of the $Y_{ij}$'s. In the present paper, using the inversion formula of the Stieltjes transform, we will find that the limiting distribution of $B_n$ has a continuous density function away from zero.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.519-524
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• 2009

In multivariate analysis, the inversion formula of the Stieltjes transform is used to find the density of a spectral distribution of random matrices of sample covariance type. Let $B_{n}\;=\;\frac{1}{n}Y_{m}^{T}T_{m}Y_{m}$ where $Ym\;=\;[Y_{ij}]_{m{\times}n}$ is with independent, identically distributed entries and $T_m$ is an $m{\times}m$ symmetric nonnegative definite random matrix independent of the $Y_{ij}{^{\prime}}s$. In the present paper, using the inversion formula of the Stieltjes transform, we will find the density function of the limiting distribution of $B_n$ away from zero.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.154.1-154.1
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• 2011

IGRINS (Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer) is a cross-dispersed high resolution near-infrared spectrograph whose primary disperser is a silicon immersion grating (SIG) and cross-dispersers are two volume phase holographic gratings (VPHG). IGRINS covers the full ranges of H and K astronomical wavelength bands at a single exposure with the spectral resolution of 40,000. The overall layout of the IGRINS Cryostat is a $960{\times}600{\times}380$ cubic millimeter rectangular box and the whole optical train is sitting on an $880{\times}520{\times}50\;mm^3$ rectangular Optical Bench. The total volume of the instrument has been revolutionarily reduced and remained compact for the spectral coverage and sensitivity of a high resolution spectrograph in infrared. We, in this presentation, introduce the design models, the structural and thermal analysis results of the mechanics and cryogenics of IGRINS.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.6C
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• pp.506-515
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• 2010

In this paper, we compare and analyze the spectral efficiency of representative adaptive MIMO algorithms in indoor environments. We first briefly investigate the modulation and demodulation schemes of MIMO algorithms to be compared and then implement adaptive algorithms by using BPSK and square QAM schemes up to 256QAM. We finally compare the spectral efficiency of adaptive MIMO algorithms employing (2$\times$2) or (4$\times$4) antenna array through the computer simulation in indoor environments.